KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A Swedish man and his three sons who skied out of bounds have been rescued after they spent the night on Revelstoke Mountain.

RCMP Cpl. Thomas Blakney says the father and his children — aged 11, 15 and 17 — trespassed a roped area at the Revelstoke Resort on Wednesday.

A helicopter airlifted them out of the area on Thursday morning.

Blakney says an ambulance was waiting for the family but released them because there weren't any medical concerns.

A search and rescue helicopter dropped supplies for them on Wednesday but had to pull out because of bad weather and the approaching darkness.

Earlier this week, a military helicopter was needed to rescue a snowboarder who spent two days in the wilderness near West Vancouver after he went out of bounds at the Cypress Mountain resort. (CHNL)

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Vintage Vail: Looking Back at the Ski Resorts Early Days

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Vail Village was modeled on Switzerland's Zermatt, with a cobblestone pedestrian main street and buildings inspired by Tyrolean architecture.
"Pete [Seibert] and Earl [Eaton] were the impetus behind Vail. The rest of us tagged along and had a whole lot of fun. I had the privilege of skiing with Pete his whole life -- we grew up in Sharon, Massachusetts, and even then he cut ski trails into a little hill outside of town."
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Though the snow is usually softer in the spring, making for slower skiing, some early visitors to Vail realized that an accordion more than compensated.
"In April 1962, I was working in Aspen, and Pete told me I had to see this ski mountain he was working on. We took a snowcat and looked out over the Vail Valley and what would become Sun Up Bowl. It was beautiful."
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Created to be Vail Resort's base village, the town of Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the resort opened.
"The bowl had a crust of corn snow, and we skied all the way down to the aspens. Those tracks became Vail's Forever trail -- because it took forever to get back up the mountain."
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At its founding in 1962, Colorado's Vail Resort had one gondola (seen here carrying skiers to Mid Vail), two chair lifts, eight ski instructors and nine runs.
"We built a gondola and two lifts the entire summer of '62. That first winter was rough, because there was no snow until late in the season --- we even invited Ute Indians to do a snow dance. I don't know if that was it, but the snow finally fell."
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Early skiers in search of the good life came to Vail for its $5 lift tickets and proximity to Denver (the drive takes half as long as the trip to Aspen).
"The day we opened Sun Up Bowl, there was a crowd of maybe 100 people -- I couldn't believe it! Pete and I headed down the ridge to watch."
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Before apps and Wi-Fi, this phone was the best source for up-to-the-minute information on mountain conditions.
"Nobody had ever skied a powder bowl like that, and some of them turned all the way down, but plenty just fell into the snow. Pete and I stood there soaking it all in."
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Morrie Shepard was the Vail Ski School’s first director; an assistant, Rod Slifer, would later help lead the resort’s expansion.
"I'm 87 now, and I don't ski like I used to. But I still get my powder days, and I enjoy every turn. Every time I go to Vail, I can't believe what I'm seeing. I never could have dreamed that Vail would become what it is today, but Pete imagined it all along."
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